I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.